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CPGC Awards 2013 Summer Internships

Catherine Quero '15, one of 63 students awarded CPGC summer internship funding, at the April orientation session for the group.

Published on:

05/08/13

The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship will fund 63 bi-co students to do domestic and international internships, and research this summer focusing on education and action around contemporary issues of global significance.

The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship's Summer Internship Program will support 63 students this year to work with social service organizations, and do independent research both domestically and abroad. The CPGC's mission is to advance Haverford's long-standing commitment to peace and social justice through research, education and action around contemporary issues of global significance, and the Summer Internship Program is a key part of fulfilling that goal.

“We again received twice as many applications as we were able to fund, meaning, unfortunately, that many worthwhile applications had to be turned down,” said CPGC Executive Director Parker Snowe. â€œNevertheless, we have been able to support an extraordinary range of projects. It is heartening to see the ingenuity, diverse interests and social commitment of our students.” And, adds Snowe,“The fact that our internships this year are nearly evenly divided between domestic and international highlights the 'local' as well as the 'global' nature of our programs.”

Summer internships for 2013 were awarded to 53 Haverford students and 10 Bryn Mawr students. A dozen students received funding for self-designed international internships that include working with organizations that assist special needs children in Bulgaria, run programs for HIV-positive youth in South Africa and promote restorative justice in Northern Ireland. As part of the CPGCs Ongoing International Partnerships, which sends students to partner organizations each summer, three students will teach English in Nanjing, China; three will work at a hospital and school in Koderma, India; and four will be based at Casa de los Amigos a Quaker Center for Peace in Mexico City, Mexico.

On the domestic front, 11 students whose self-designed internships won CPGC funding, will undertake a variety of activities with organizations ranging from the Heirloom Seed Project, in Maine; to an alternative fuel advocacy group in New York City; to a legal defense fund for children in Los Angeles. The Center's Ongoing Domestic Partnership Internships will send students to High Rocks Academy in West Virginia; to the Michigan Land Institute in Traverse City; and to Voices of Witness in San Francisco.

Finally, the CPGC program will fund more than a dozen students to do independent research during the summer on such topics as biofuels, migration and sustainability, in locales such as London, Buenos Aires, Okinawa and Hamburg.